Date   : Wed, 11 Dec 1991 15:14:08 GMT
From   : prism!jm59@gatech.edu (MILLS,JOHN M.)
Subject: Re: Intertek Computer

In article <9112091101.AA19543@LL.MIT.EDU> sage@LL.MIT.EDU (Jay Sage) writes:
>
>   Does anyone out there know anything about the Compustar Multiuser Terminal
>System, Model 20?  It was made by Intertek Data Systems in Columbia, SC.
>Someone who owns such a machine contacted me.  They say that the company is
>no longer listed with telephone information.  This owner would love to share
>information and software.

I think this machine was the diskless sibling (possibly the predecessor)
(and maybe even the predecedent) of the Intertec _Superbrain_ cp/m systems
we had at Scientific-Atlanta in about 1980-82.  My memory is that the system
had a single motherboard, very few options, the usual dumb-terminal cursor
addressing and character attributes (but no graphics), and came in three
disk configurations: one 5.25" DD/DS, two 5.25" DD/DS, and one diskette plus
one internal hard disk.  I could be wrong about the last.  My two-drive
model routinely burned out the disk drives, since they had rubber-band
drive and ran _all_the_time_.

The Superbrain looked like a reasonably smooth Adds terminal.  If your
Compustar looks like a terminal, it may _just_be_ a terminal.  If it
looks like a chassis, it may be a multiuser cp/m of some kind.  What
does it look like?  Any connectors which might be fast enough data
paths for a shared-disk transfer?

I have some old disks from my Superbrain, but don't at the moment have
any way to read them.  The sector size is too large for the BIOS of my
SD-Systems boat anchor, and I never got a 5.25" drive to work convincingly
with it, anyway.

Maybe this will jog someone's memory on the _Compustar_.

-- 
John M. Mills, SRE; Georgia Tech/GTRI/EEEL, Atlanta, GA 30332
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